Monthly Archives: December 2012
Google Now Improvements Make Holiday Travel Easier
Google engineers are expanding Google Now to give travelers even more up-to-date travel information instantly and automatically, without their having to push a single...
Apple to Make Macs in America: Cook
After reports surfaced earlier this week that Apple had been manufacturing some of its devices in the United States, company CEO Tim Cook told...
IT Making Businesses More Efficient: Juniper
Businesses worldwide primarily rely on IT departments to increase efficiency of their operations, but IT is largely falling short of expectations to drive business...
NASA Aiming for Mars Again With New Science Rover in 2020
NASA's continuing exploration of Mars with scientific rovers on the red planet's surface will continue into 2020, when the space agency plans to launch...
Spear-Phishing Emails Now Favorite Tactic for Advanced Malware Threats
Advanced persistent threats may use different types of malware, but they do have one thing usually in common—spear-phishing.According to a new paper from Trend...
Court Decision Upholding FCC Data-Roaming Order Is Boon to Small Carriers
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit decided unanimously Dec. 4 that the FCC is operating...
Nokia Lumia 620 Is Cheapest Windows Phone 8 Yet
Nokia has introduced two new Windows Phone 8 devices, the Nokia Lumia 620, now the most budget-friendly Lumia to run Microsoft's newest operating system,...
Syria Outage Sheds Light on U.S. ‘Kill Switch’ Concerns
Critics concerned that an "Internet kill switch" could be used to censor U.S. citizens from reaching the world should take heart in the Syrian...
Red Hat Virtualization Suite Now Integrates With RH Storage
Red Hat, the world's largest independent open-source software maker, Dec. 5 updated its virtualization and cloud platforms so that they plug into each other,...
Google Offers Enterprises Private App Stores for Employees
Google is now giving enterprises a new way to distribute their Android apps to employees—through their own "private channels" set up inside the Google...